I handed the GoPro off to Adam, since I knew I would take it slow and he would be much more interesting.
In the beginning of the video he goes over our adventure briefly. You can read my more detailed posts on in the E-Bike Adventures blog.
This mountain is clearly a hiking trail and going down on a bike was just an intense, rocky, rooty descend.
I walked my bike down a lot of the stuff. I know my limits and got off my bike before gravity made me get off.
This mountain was a little strange and confusing too. There were some little inclines on our descend. At one point I felt lost and I saw Adam looking at the GPS on his phone. He tried to reassure me he wasn’t lost. (Later on he told me he was a little nervous as well)
In the video Adam says how well I was doing. He only thought I was doing well because I wasn’t being vocal about my struggles. I really was struggling very badly. My only thoughts were “I want to go back to the camp.”
At the very end of the video you can see me walking my bike and complaining how tired I was.
Stay tuned for the next post to see us finally journey to the bottom of the mountain!
Here is our 3rd part of our North Conway adventure!
This is after we crossed the first road from where I left off in the last post. This video features some twists and turns on fairly flat trails. Toward the end of the video we find our way through a strange place with forts, ropes little buildings and then enter the mount Cranmore resort area.
After the video cuts out is where our true adventure begins.
We try to figure out if we want to climb Cranmore right up on the ski trails or go another way. We study google maps and make a quick decision to climb Hurricane Rd, climb up Black Cap mountain off Hurricane Rd, descending down the mountain and somehow make our way to Cranmore.
Unfortunately, I didn’t record climbing the road. But let me tell you, it was absolutely crazy.
The road is a steep seasonal unmaintained mountain road in the White Mountains region in North Conway.
Our ebikes were maxed out on power. We used a lot of our human power to climb this crazy road.
The funny part to me is that we never stopped to take a break and the ebike was powerful enough that we could still chit chat on our climb.
My legs were burning!! I kept thinking to myself,
“I have to climb another mountain and somehow find my way back to our campsite?”
At this point in our trip we were 15 miles away from our campsite, now climbing a mountain road and trying to find the next mountain trail.
I was super nervous about this ride but I kept my mouth shut and just went with the flow.
It took us a while to find the Black Cap mountain trail. We went up and down parts of Hurricane Mt road probably 4 times trying to find the trail. We finally found it, just up the road a little bit from where we were looking.
So now I’m exhausted from the up and down and searching but again, I just kept my mouth shut. I wanted my boyfriend to enjoy himself and not hear any of my personal doubts.
So we finally find the trail for Black Cap mountain and we start the climb. We never even took a break. People on the trail giggled and couldn’t believe what we were doing.
Since it was a hiking trail there were man made steps out of stones and logs so we were literally climbing stairs on our bikes.
After about a 1 mile climb that went up probably another 1,000 feet we made it to a very little, over grown outlook. It was enough for me to hoot holler and celebrate I made it!
We took a break here for probably less than 10 minuets. I snapped a couple photos and handed the gopro off to my boyfriend because it was all downhill from here.
We were about 2,500 feet up in elevation. About 15 miles from our campsite. Our campsite was our next destination.
I’m about to descend the mountain with my legs burning. We don’t know what to expect but I know I’m already tired and extremely sore.
